If the tree is to be known by its fruits, Confucius must have been one of the master minds of our race.

The supposition that a man of low morals or small intellect, an impostor or an enthusiast, could influence the world, is a theory which is an insult to human nature.

The time for such theories has happily gone by.

We now know that nothing can come of nothing,--that a fire of straw may make a bright blaze, but must necessarily soon go out.

A light which illuminates centuries must be more than an ignis fatuus.